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Black Women: Biography, Autobiography, Personal Essays, and Memoir (nonfiction)
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Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
by:
Janet Mock
4.24 avg rating — 2,415 ratings
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Bessie Coleman: Daring Stunt Pilot
by:
Robbins
3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond
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Essie Mae Washington-Williams
3.94 avg rating — 1,176 ratings
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Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey
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Sandra R. Lieb
3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
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Phoebe Robinson
3.84 avg rating — 23,541 ratings
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We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
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Pearl Cleage
4.30 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Pearl Cleage and Free Womanhood: Essays on Her Prose Works
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Tikenya Foster-Singletary
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
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Emily Bernard
4.08 avg rating — 3,012 ratings
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Michelle Obama: Speeches by the First Lady
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Michelle Obama
4.15 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
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Misty Copeland
3.89 avg rating — 8,388 ratings
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Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
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Rosalind Rosenberg
4.24 avg rating — 408 ratings
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American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America
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Michelle Obama
3.94 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
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Audre Lorde
4.42 avg rating — 5,111 ratings
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The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
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Patricia Bell-Scott
4.26 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
by:
John F. Szwed
3.49 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Harriet Tubman For Beginners
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Annette Alston
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
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Patricia Williams
4.44 avg rating — 15,392 ratings
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
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Nell Irvin Painter
4.19 avg rating — 1,249 ratings
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White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
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Gail Lukasik
3.70 avg rating — 2,378 ratings
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Aretha: From These Roots
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Aretha Franklin
3.15 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
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James McGrath Morris
4.19 avg rating — 203 ratings
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We Who Believe in Freedom
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Singing in the African American Tradition - Volume 2: Building a Vocal Community
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Ysaye M. Barnwell
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
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Bridgett M. Davis
3.91 avg rating — 2,230 ratings
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The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America
by:
April Ryan
3.85 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism
by:
Sarah Silkey
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
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Angela Jackson
3.80 avg rating — 76 ratings
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A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
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Maegan Parker Brooks
4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Odetta: The Queen of Folk
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Stephen Alcorn
3.96 avg rating — 89 ratings
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No Disrespect
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Sister Souljah
4.27 avg rating — 3,754 ratings
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
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Laguana Gray
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
by:
Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
4.10 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music
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Hettie Jones
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
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Zadie Smith
3.83 avg rating — 6,109 ratings
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Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
by:
Michael Cunningham
4.39 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
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C. Nicole Mason
4.08 avg rating — 729 ratings
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Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair
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Michael Cunningham
4.19 avg rating — 59 ratings
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I Will Not Fear: My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith under Fire
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Melba Pattillo Beals
3.90 avg rating — 621 ratings
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A story untold: Black men and women in Athens history
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Michael Thurmond
4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Until There Is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
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Jennifer Scanlon
4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
by:
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
3.90 avg rating — 468 ratings
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A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist
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Linda Janet Holmes
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice
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Keith Gilyard
3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Wiregrass Country (Folklife in the South Series)
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Jerrilyn McGregory
3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
by:
Sherie M. Randolph
3.98 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
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Jerrilyn McGregory
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
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Tiffany Dufu
3.84 avg rating — 4,184 ratings
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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Toni Morrison
4.30 avg rating — 4,087 ratings
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Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul
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Laurie Jean Cannady
4.59 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Toni Morrison For Beginners
by:
Ron David
4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education: Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation
by:
Cheryl B. Wattley
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Golden Dreams: How Hattie McDaniel Broke Barriers in Hollywood and Beyond
by:
Charlene Porter
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
by:
Tamara Winfrey Harris
4.20 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
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March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine
by:
Melba Pattillo Beals
4.26 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
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Pearl Cleage
3.77 avg rating — 738 ratings
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Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
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Pauli Murray
4.60 avg rating — 537 ratings
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They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her (Volume 1)
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Carolyn Marie Wilkins
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
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Carol Anderson
4.39 avg rating — 3,306 ratings
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
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Condoleezza Rice
4.06 avg rating — 4,309 ratings
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Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps
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Charissa J. Threat
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir
by:
Dorothy I. Height
4.18 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Zoe A. Colley
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
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C. Vivian Stringer
4.20 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights
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Melissa Lambert Milewski
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors
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Marian Wright Edelman
4.06 avg rating — 121 ratings
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In My Place: An Autobiography
by:
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
3.78 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall
by:
Iain Cameron Williams
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line
by:
George Hutchinson
4.43 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Equal Justice Under Law
by:
Constance Baker Motley
4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway
by:
Greg Kot
3.88 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin
by:
Jacqueline A. McLeod
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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